Re: tunnel cifs share with other port than 139

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 22:52 +0200, Ernst Blaauw wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As my home computer (Ubuntu 9.04) has a Samba server enabled, I cannot
> use the port 139 and 445 to tunnel a cifs share to my Network Media
> Tank running DropBear. Therefore, I tried the following:
> 
> ssh -f -N -L 2139:localhost:139 -L 2445:localhost:445
> [email protected] -i /home/user/.ssh/nmt/id_rsa_root.openssh -p
> 2022
> 
> and then:
> 
> smbmount //localhost/share /home/user/nmt -o
> port=2139,username=nmt,password=1234,ip=127.0.0.1
> 
> After this, I receive the error:
> 
> retrying with upper case share name
> mount error(6): No such device or address
> Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)
> 
> Without using a tunnel it works normally, but that's not safe over
> internet.
> 
> Can someone help me to tunnel cifs over a different port range than
> the standard ports 139 and 445?
> 
> Thanks! Ernst

The port= option was broken in recent kernels until very recently. The
fix should be in 2.6.31 when it comes out (and may have gotten pushed to
stable...I don't recall).

-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>